Seeking User Experience related projects starting May 2010 in order to make significant contributions by designing interfaces enjoyed by the end users.
Masters, Human Computer Interaction Design, School of informatics & computing.
Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Engineering, Biotechnology, GPA 3.5, Graduated July 2008.
User experience designer| SURG Lab| Indiana University| Sep 09- present
DIMA, a diet management mobile application for dialysis patients was originally designed keeping low literacy patients in mind. Responsible for User research-Comptetive analysis, Heuristic evaluation. A/B product Usability testing, Sketching, ideation for redesign. Worked in a team consisting of developer. Professor Kay Connelly is the principal investigator for the project.
User Experience Designer|Salt Alert- Mobile Application| Sep, 09 to Present
A mobile application for parents to track child’s daily sodium intake. Interviews, qualitative data analysis, competitive analysis, ideation, sketching, wireframe, Information visulization, User work flow, Usability testing, interacting with stakeholders including developer, dietician and manager on the project , documentation were main responsibilities.
Worked as a Interaction design intern for India's 3rd largest travel portal. The summer internship involved a usability report to help the company plug some of the issues on the hotel booking section of the website and provide some recommendations for possible future design changes. The report was very well accepted by the company and the company Blog has an entry for their appreciation of the work.
VDPI, Village development project of India offered a voluntary position to redesign and update their existing site vdpi.ca. Various techniques like wireframe, card sorting were applied before using HTML, CSS, light box ( j-query plug in) for development of the website. Close interaction with stakeholders during design process ensured a happy client. Impressed by the work the client requested on call help for future website maintenance requirement. Axure was used for making the wireframes.
Bill Buxton-Sketching User Experience
Carolyn Snyder- Paper Prototyping
Jon Kolko-Thoughts on Interaction Design
Mike Kuniavsky-Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Story Board
Wireframe
Ideation
Iterative design
Affinity Diagram
Persona
Use Case Scenario
Card sorting
Ethnography
Contextual enquiry
Dairy studies
Ethnography Contextual enquiry Dairy studies
Focus group
Interviews
Survey’s
Cultural probe
Card sorting
Literature review
Wizard of Oz
Paper Prototype
Foam Prototyping
Balsamiq
Axure
Sketching
Premiere Pro
Fireworks
Illustrator
Indesign
HTML
CSS
J-Query
Java-Elementary
R
Matlab
Dreamweaver
Gliffy